9/1/11- 9/3/11- Munich-Berkeley Joint Workshop: Fictions of the Human/Fiktionen des Humanen"( Faculty Club)
Fiction(s) of the Human:
The Reinvention of Man Since
the Enlightenment
Munich-Berkeley Joint Workshop
Berkeley, Sept 1-3, 2011
9.00 -11.00 Britta Herrmann (Munich): Man as Departure
a Work of Art. The Invention of the
(Post-)Human in the 18th Century
Niklaus Largier (Berkeley):
Reconfiguring the Senses
11.00 -11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 -12.15 Paul Rabinow (Berkeley): Streitschrift:
What Science? What Art? What Life?
12.15 -13.45 Lunch Break
13.45 -15.45 Anja Lemke (Cologne): The Artist’s
Work as Production of Humanity –
Schiller’s “Letters on the Aesthetic
Education of Man”
Karin Feldman (Berkeley): On Fabel,
Fiction and Human History in Gottsched
15.45 -16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 -18.00 Ian Duncan (Berkeley): The Form
of the Novel and the Form of Man
Annette Keck (Munich): Of Letters
and Men: Literal Anatomies and the
Construction of Humanity
Reception sponsored by German
Department, UC Berkeley
11.30 -12.00 Arrival / Reception:
Howard Room, Faculty Club
12.00 -13.00 Lunch
13.00 -13.15 Introduction:
Britta Herrmann, Chenxi Tang
13.15 -15.15 David Bates (Berkeley):
Cartesian Robotics and the Age
of Information
André Otto (Munich):
Desiring Machines – Anoedipal
Anthropology
15.15 -15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 -18.30 Elif Özmen (Munich):
Anthropological Fictions in
Contemporary Practical Philosophy
Cary Wolfe (Rice University):
Constituting the Human:
Biopolitical Thought
Kerstin Schmidt (Munich):
„The theme is blackness“
Reflections on Modernity and Race
Dinner
Thursday, 01.09.11 Friday, 02.09.11 Saturday, 03.09.11
Fiktion(en) des Humanen:
Die Neuerfindung des Menschen seit der Aufklärung
Organizers:
Britta Herrmann
britta.herrmann@germanistik.uni-muenchen.de
Chenxi Tang
ctang@berkeley.edu
Sponsored by:
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich:
LMU-excellent
University of California, Berkeley:
Division of the Humanities
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Department of English
Department of German
Department of Rhetoric
Berkeley U N I V E R S I T Y O F CALIFORNIA

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